The Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances for 2019 provides insights into the evolution of family income and net worth since the previous time the survey was conducted in 2016. The survey shows that over the 2016–19 period, the median value of real (inflation-adjusted) family...

To get a more comprehensive picture of how families' uncommitted income has evolved since the financial crisis, we analyze a broader measure of households' committed monthly payments that includes rent for renters, as well as payments to cover mortgages for homeowners and other debt obligations...

New data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show that long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since the last survey in 2016; the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black...